Now there's a Tornado Watch here in NYC!!

Jeez louise!

It moved north from here.

t fuming It took them 4 weeks- FOUR WEEKS!- to notice they were missing something they consider critical. After 5 rounds of test sets that they were supposed to vet to make sure nothing was missing. Goddamnit.

I was about to leave the house when it started pouring rain. I took it as a sign to stay in.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SUMI!!!!!!

Poor mac and msbelle! I have a vague memory of literally climbing the furniture in the examining room in an effort to escape the doctor, screaming bloody murder the whole time. Neither my mother nor the doctor were amused.

I think you talking him through it, again will help. Maybe you can give him like a code word or signal or something that he can use to remind himself to breath and think happy thoughts.

we just had a talk about a lizard brain, because he was spazzing out about walking into a room that had all the lights on - you see, he could see a doorway into another room that had the lights off and that is scary. He claims unable to go into the room with the lights on without me because of the visual on the scary dark room, and of course he is unable to go turn on the lights in the dark room.

also? they were playing Christmas music in the grocery store.

Here, too. And B&N.

I had a big freakout when I was 4 to avoid being given a billious yellow-green liquid tranquilizer—my parents had to chase me throughout the house and pin me down to make me swallow it. I have no idea why I reacted so strongly to it out of the blue (though I was right to do so... to this day it's the worst thing I've ever tasted), but needles have only ever made me slightly squeamish if I watch them going in.

OMG -- I can't believe I didn't realize until I looked it up that this one guest star on Ugly Betty was Ralph Macchio!! He must have had good work done, because he looks way too generic.